El Calafate Hostels - Reviews and Rates

On next part of the journey started with another 18 hour bus journey to Rio Gallegos - Argentina really is a huge country. We had a brilliant bus journey - it broke down half way and a child screamed its head off in the seat behind us for 9 continuous hours. More of the same scenery as well - mile after mile of nasty scrubland. Rio Gallegos mark...

I´ve been really lazy with this recently so all of this stuff happened about a month ago and im not sure how much I can be bothered to write as it´s ridiculously hot where I am. That makes it particularly strange when i´m writing about the glaciers that I went to see! I made the error of not having a day off after my trek in Torres so moved str...

Well I had a rather entertaining (I am taking it that way at least) start to my trip to El Calafate. This was one of the longest bus rides that I had to do - I think that the bus to Rio Gallegos was about 22 hours and then it was another 4 hours from Rio on to El Calafate. I had been chatting to Reny and 2 other girls who were in their mid twent...

L´endemà vam partir cap al parc nacional "los glaciares". Una de les recomanacions, a més a l´alberg hi havia un tour organitzat que no semblava malament i sobretot barat. Per anar a los Glaciares, primer vam passar per un pasaitge tipic de la patagonia, semblava un dia fred pero encara hi lluia el Sol. Mentre anavem enfilant-nos cap una zona pl...

This is just a short entry for the purpose of completeness. If we had visited the Glacier we would have more to write about. We arrived in El Calafate after a rather boring journey from Puerto Natales. I don´t want to sound negative but there is really nothing to see between the two town but nothingness. No hills, no trees just flat plains of no...

Day 113: December 5, 2007: Río Gallegos to El Calafate We got up around 7:00 and had a leisurely breakfast in the hotel comedor. The girls and I walked down to an internet place where I uploaded the latest group of journal entries. Upon returning to the hotel, we packed our bags and checked out. A cab took us to the bus terminal where we got a T...

We took off from Bariloche's small airport to an even smaller (if not newer) airport in El Calafate. During the two hour flight, you really got a sense of the huge barren pampas that dominate most of southern Patagonia (the lakes region we just came from is where Patagonia is its most lush and colorful. The hotel we stayed at in El Calafate was...

We went to feast our eyes upon the great Perito Moreno Glacier. Woah, glaciers are huge! Why didn´t anyone tell us?! ...they´re really cold too. Um, I don´t know what else to tell you about it except that it made funny cracking noises, and the water was really blue, and... hey man, it was just a big chunk of ice, don´t get too excited.

Decided to cut out a huge bus trip and fly from Ushuaia to Rio Gallegos where we waited for two hours in a deserted airport for a bus. The double-decker bus arrived and I said "wouldn't it be amazing to sit in those front seats on the top deck?" We were in luck and Wim, Ria, Ed and I took the best seats in the bus. It was like having an IMAX mov...

Thursday morning was an early start (6.30am...hours before Sam wakes up for work!), we were both excited at the prospect of seeing some glaciers. Our tour bus drove for about an hour till we reached the entrance to Parque Naçional de los Glaciers (a UNESCO world heritage site). As well as the glaciers, the park also includes mountains, rivers, l...